>my idea was to tune one of the trichords DOWN > slightly. No one has taken me up on the offer yet, so I haven't actually > done it. > > Have any others tried this? How did you do it? Did it work well? Did you > retune the piano afterwards to normal? > > Wally Scherer I got called to "detune" a piano for a rental agency. The clients wanted a honky tonk sound. I didn't know whether they wanted to hear thumbtacks on the hammers or an out of tune piano. I detuned several notes by knocking one string of the unison down. They liked the sound so I did the rest of the piano. I tuned them down because I thought it would be easier tuning them back up. Besides that is the way strings go out of tune in your typical honky tonk piano. ---ric
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